法苑珠林 8.71

8.71

Then the World-Honoured One said to the bodhisattvas: 'I shall explain it broadly for you in detail. You should know now: in the past, countless hundreds of thousands of myriads of koṭis of asaṃkhyeya kalpas ago, and even beyond that number, there was a world named Great Adornment, and the kalpa was named Great Treasure. There was a Buddha named Tathāgata Ratnadīpa-jvālādhipati. The Buddha's life span was half a kalpa, the saddharma transformed the world and remained for one kalpa, and the semblance Dharma transformed the world and remained for two kalpas. In the semblance Dharma, there was a great king named Prabhāguṇa, who transformed the people with the ten virtues like a cakravartin. At that time, the great king taught the people to chant the Vedic treatises. In the academy at that time, there were a thousand youths, each fifteen years of age, intelligent and widely knowledgeable. Hearing the bhikṣus praise the Buddha, Dharma, and Saṃgha, one youth named Padmottara asked the bhikṣu Subhadra: "What is meant by the Buddha, Dharma, and Saṃgha?" The bhikṣu replied:'